Principal Product Security Engineer

The role

You will set product security direction and lead cross-functional security initiatives across major products and platforms. You will embed security by design into roadmaps and work with engineering and product leadership to turn risk into shippable plans.

What you will do

• Shape product security strategy and define security guardrails for AI-assisted development
• Lead large-scale security initiatives like secure SDLC improvements and vulnerability reduction
• Build automation for vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation
• Evolve security assurance programs including pentests, bug bounty programs, and red-team activity
• Guide adoption of security tools into CI/CD
• Support compliance using frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and NIS2
• Influence senior leaders and mentor Product Security Engineers
• Track and translate the threat landscape into changes to controls and tooling

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in software, product, or application security
• Deep expertise in secure architecture and system design for cloud-native or distributed systems
• Experience driving org-level risk management and security programs
• Strong hands-on familiarity with cloud-native environments including containers, Kubernetes, and public cloud
• Experience with security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, and SLSA
• Ability to automate security workflows in at least one language such as Go, Python, or Shell
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment in a remote-first environment

Nice to have

• Background in software supply chain security (SBOMs, SLSA, provenance, signing, build system hardening)
• Experience with red-teaming or offensive security and/or open source software development in security-sensitive projects
• Public speaking or writing on security topics
• Participation in industry communities or standards
• Prior experience in early-stage or high-growth companies

Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture
• Team meetup opportunities
• Bi-annual destination summits
• Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs
• Stock options upon hire and promotion
• Participation in secondary offerings
• 10 years to exercise options
• 100% Covered Health Insurance for employees and dependents
• Infinite Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for non-birthing parents

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About the company

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. They deliver hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of open source software to help organizations build faster and eliminate risk.